nprbooks:

Congratulations to Gene Luen Yang on being named the Library of Congress’s new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature! Comics critic (and Pop Culture Happy Hour panelist) Glen Weldon has Thoughts about his, and they are Weighty and Fascinating:

Yang’s selection signals an important shift in a decades-old war over the role of comics in education in general and literacy in particular.

Every since the 1930s, when they first burst onto the American literary landscape in all their gleefully garish four-color glory, the battle lines over comics were clearly defined.

Kids loved ‘em; teachers and parents hated ‘em. (See also: television, rock and roll, rap, video games, emojis.)

Gonna go re-read American Born Chinese, because it is SO GOOD.

– Petra

Jan 05, 2016
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